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Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within
by Mike Lowell, Rob Bradford

Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within
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Author: Mike Lowell, Rob Bradford
Foreword: Josh Beckett
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN: 0451225554
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Celebra Hardcover

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Book Review: great guy, great story, poor book
Summary: 2 Stars

Mike Lowell is an example of a wonderful guy with an unbelievable story. But the book seems like it was rushed to publication and is basically all fluff. It has tons of errors and some passages just don't make any sense at all. I spent 20 minutes on a paragraph once trying to figure out what happened and I never did. Sometimes stories start and drop out before completed.

I don't blame Lowell, who is a ballplayer not a writer. I blame the ghostwriter Rob Bradford, who is a professional journalist in Boston and should know better. I suspect he and the editors/publishers rushed this to print and it shows. The paperback will probably be much better. But even with the novice mistakes fixed, the way the stories are told are just flat and carry none of the intensity that they should have. These are amazing stories! But they are written blandly.

For a good baseball book, check out David Wells' book.

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